Charlie Montoyo

The World Series will start on Tuesday which means, the Rays’ off-season will start to ramp up in the next week or two. In the meantime, here are some tidbits from around the interwebs. First here are some minor leaguers who are now free agents: RHP Ernesto Frieri, Durham Bulls […]

As the manager of the Durham Bulls in recent years, Charlie Montoyo knows Tim Beckham as well as anybody and the Rays’ new third base coach recently had some high praise for the shortstop prospect. It has been seven years since the Rays made Tim Beckham the first pick of […]

The Rays have finalized their coaching staff with third base coach Tom Foley moving to the dugout to become Kevin Cash’s bench coach. To fill Foley’s spot, the Rays have hired Durham Bulls manager Charlie Montoyo to be the new third base coach. In addition, former player Rocco Baldelli, who […]

We discussed this over the weekend at our Facebook page, but now that Kevin Cash is the manager of the Rays, the next interesting question is who will be his bench coach. In theory, you would like a guy with managerial experience since Cash has none. But you have to […]

The Rays have released eight names as their “preliminary” list of managerial candidates: Dave Martinez Charlie Montoyo Manny Acta Ron Wotus Don Wakamatsu Raul Ibanez Craig Counsell Kevin Cash President of baseball operations Matt Silverman said he expects other names will be added in the near future. “This is a […]

Now that the World Series is over we will start to ramp-up the off-season coverage. Like most seasons, there are a lot of changes that need to be made. Most of the moves will be at the back-end of the roster and will barely register on the national radar. And […]

The GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe. RAYS 5, Yankees 2 (boxscore) THE GOOD: Big Bats Bangin’. The Rays only had 5 hits, but the Rays’ big bats made them count, with home runs […]

The GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe. THE GOOD: off-day THE BAD: off-day THE TELLING: The Rays only need to go 13-16 in the final 29 to get to 95 wins. Every AL […]

The Durham Bulls today announced that Jeremy Hellickson was named the International League Pitcher of the Year and Dan Johnson won the league’s MVP award. In addition, manager Charlie Montoyo was named the manager of the year. Hellickson was 12-3 with a league-leading 2.45 ERA in 25 starts. He struck […]